Improvement in wash-boilers



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No'. 143,796.. I Y Patent'edocr.. 21,1873.

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LEWIS YV. TRUESDELL AND FRANK CURTIS, OF OWEGO, NET YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,796, dated October 21, 1873; application filed June 19,1873.

To all who/m it may concern:

Be it known thatwe, LEwrs W.TEUEsDELL and FRANK CUETrs, both of Owego, in the county of Tioga, in the State of New York, have Vinvented new and useful Improvements in the just itself to boilers of different sizes.

`To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our inventions, we will proceed to describe their construction and operation.

We construct the detached spouts B, No. 1, of tin, or any suitable material, of an oval shape at the bottom. We make the inside piece shorter than the back L, to allow the water to pass up through the oriices K at the top of the spouts, and disseminate itself through the clothes. The top of the back piece H can be bent to any angle desired to direct the water in the boiler. The adjustable false bottom C, No. 2, is made of two angular pieces, G, of tin, or any suitable material, with openings to allow the water to pass from the clothes to the bottom of the boiler. Thespiral springs D support the false bottom by resting on the bottoml of the boiler. They also give the an gular pieces a lengthwise and sidewise motion, thereby regulating itself to different-sized boilers, and holding the detached spouts to their places. One end of the spring is pivoted to one 'of the angular'pieces at N. The other is passed through a hole, F, of the other angular piece, and bent so as to -form a latch, bending the end to operate in a circle of holes, G, to adI just the bottom to any pressure or size.

As the latch is moved toward the center of the boiler it increases the torsion strain of the spring thereby.

No. 3 represents a perspective view of the i boiler with spouts and bottoml attached ready for operation.

This device can be placed in any boiler, at any time, and removed at will, leaving it entirely free for any other purpose.

Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire IVitnesses: Y

H. H. RoUsE, W. A. SMYTH. 

